Picturing Death 1200-1600

Picturing Death: 1200-1600 brings together essays considering four key centuries of imagery related to human mortality, from tomb sculpture to painted altarpieces, from manuscripts to printed books, and from minute carved objects to large-scale architecture.

About the author

Stephen Perkinson, Ph.D. (1998, Northwestern University), is Professor of Art History and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Bowdoin College. He is the author of The Likeness of the King (Chicago, 2009) and The Ivory Mirror (Yale, 2017).

Noa Turel, Ph.D. (2012, University of California, Santa Barbara), is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the author of Living Pictures: Jan van Eyck and Painting's First Century (Yale, 2020).

Product details

• Assisted by: Stephen Perkinson (Editor), Noa Turel (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2020
• EAN: 9789004430020
• ISBN: 978-90-04-43002-0
• No. of pages: 476
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 241 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 998 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918